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Jimi Hendrix Was a Systems Engineer From IEEE Spectrum , a wonderful piece which touches on a lot of my interests at once: Hendrix’s mission was to reshape both the electric guitar’s envelope and its tone until it could feel like a human voice. He tackled the guitar’s constraints by augmenting it. His solution was essentially a modular analog signal chain driven not by knobs but by hands, feet,…